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Whitewashing the Public with a Nuclear Taskforce
by Takver
Sunday June 11, 2006 at 06:12 PM
Greenpeace Australia Chief Executive Officer Steve Shallhorn has responded to the Howard Government's nuclear taskforce, saying "this inquiry appears to be pandering to the uranium and nuclear industries who want to increase their profits using climate change as an excuse, rather than a serious attempt to tackle climate change.” he said.
“This inquiry should look at all technologies, particularly genuine renewable solutions that are already being developed worldwide. It’s unlikely that nuclear physicists Dr Ziggy Switkowski and Professor George Dracoulis will consider renewable energy options. A real inquiry would allow for public input and a real debate would include opinion from all sides." Shallhorn said.
“Prime Minister John Howard can’t seem to decide if he wants to be with the coal mafia or the nuclear mafia, when he can just drop both for the only truly green energy, renewables." he said. “Nuclear power is still as polluting, dangerous and expensive as ever and is no solution to climate change,”
Greenpeace and many other environmental organisations, have criticised the basis of the criteria saying that the inquiry needs to look at all technologies, particularly renewable solutions that are already being developed at a large scale around the world.
Shallhorn said four European industrial countries have abandoned a nuclear power program. "Spain's decision last week to abandon nuclear power and close its plants, in favour of renewables, makes it the fourth European countries to have done so. Australia can learn from their mistakes and go directly from dirty coal to clean, renewable energy without making the costly nuclear mistake."
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) report on the feasability of nuclear power by John Gittus, a UK nuclear energy insider, was criticised as failing to draw a fair comparison with renewable technology. Shallhorn said there were three major faws in the report: that "it seriously underestimates the costs of nuclear plant decomissioning at 2% of construction costs each and high-level waste storage also at 2%; it underestimates insurable risks for terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants at US$400 million;" and "it is based on a reactor design (Westinghouse AP 1000) that has never been ordered, let alone built."
Howard has called forth Gaian Hypothesis scientist, James Lovelock; and ex-member and cofounder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, who now receives funding from the nuclear lobby, to justify expansion of the nuclear industry to slow down climate change. However Howard displayed "stunning ignorance during an interview on ABC 730 Report (6/606) when he claimed the pro nuclear scientist James Lovelock was actually one of the founders of Greenpeace. Lovelock has no connection with Greenpeace. The mistake was probably the result of a lazy PM minder surfing the web in prep for the PM's interview hitting up the words "Lovelock" and "Founder of Greenpeace". These sites refer to the pro-nuke - ardent anti-green turncoat Patrick Moore one of the original founders of Greenpeace." See video clip 33 seconds.
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by E.T.
Sunday June 11, 2006 at 10:54 PM
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Disclosure Project
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and we've got to stop
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13129.htm
and everything including nuke and uranium, in order to achieve the world peace with no more global warming and so forth.
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